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What a wonderful year 2018 was!
We are very excited to share with you some of our best moments,
achievements, and great conferences/events which happened
throughout the fiscal year in our annual report.
Highlights
include:
- Two new releases, 3.28 and 3.30, with some great new features
and support for Thunderbolt 3 connections with added security
checks that are designed to prevent data theft.
Many improvements have been added for configuring touchpads and
Bluetooth devices.
- The GNOME screen reading application, Orca, saw a significant
amount of refinement. A large number of bugs were fixed.
Orca now has better interaction with GNOME Shell, with
improvements to performance, minimizing searches for unrelated
labels, and many fixes for gnome-shell extensions.
- GNOME moved to Gitlab: this was definitely one of of the most
impactful transitions. With around 5344 opened issues, 9717
closed issues and 7085 merged requests merged Gitlab is now not
only a code hub but also beneficial for the whole community as a
project management tool used by the engagement team, conference
organization team, and Board of Directors and by other
communities.
- We counted 15 unique event locations, 17 events, 7 conferences
attended and 10 hackfests which GNOME organized and/or attended.
2018 brings memories of GUADEC in Almeria, LAS in Denver , GNOME
ASIA in Taipei, and many other successful events.
- Financially speaking two large donations were received in 2017
which is reflected in more budget for events, hackfests, doubled
our sponsorship for the Outreachy Program and allowed us to
increase the GNOME Foundation staff.
Many thanks to our small donors and all companies that support
us in our mission.
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GNOME had 15 students who successfully finished Google
Summer of
Code, and two who successfully completed Outreachy internship
by
working in GNOME core applications, libraries, and new
projects.
Thank you Caroline Henriksen for your amazing work in the
design of this report.
For more information and details please see the Annual Report .
Cheers and looking forward to coming years!
Best,
Kristi
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